Chapter 4 True/False
1) The cell walls of bacteria are responsible for the shape of the bacteria and the difference in the Gram stain reaction.
Answer: TRUE
2) Antibiotics that target the cell wall are an effective treatment against many pathogenic bacteria.
Answer: TRUE
3) Cells placed in a hypotonic solution tend to lose water due to osmotic pressure.
Answer: FALSE
4) Small, hydrophobic molecules pass through a cell membrane most easily by diffusion.
Answer: TRUE
5) Spheroplasts, protoplasts, and mycoplasms are bacterial cells without cell walls.
Answer: TRUE
6) Endospores are a reproductive structure.
Answer: FALSE
7) The internal structure of eukaryotic cilia and flagella are the same.
Answer: TRUE
8) Many enzymes in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells are compartmentalized within organelles.
Answer: FALSE
9) The number of organelles such as chloroplasts, mitochondria, and rough endoplasmic reticulum is the same in all eukaryotic cells.
Answer: TRUE
10) If you observe rod-shaped red cells after the Gram stain, you can assume their cell walls contain endotoxin.
Answer: TRUE